Want to calm down? Dim the lights. Want to get amped up? Turn ‘em up. That’s the gist of a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Researchers had a group of students rate how warm they thought a room was—first lit by computer monitors, then by florescent … Read More
Humble underwear may be more dangerous than you’d think; men and women are willing to pay more for stuff after handling it, and women take more risky gambles to boot. In what is perhaps the most creative study of the year, researchers in the Journal of Consumer Psychology found that … Read More
We all hate people who fill their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with an endless cavalcade of poorly-focused food pictures, and now there’s proof that they’re making our lives worse, therefore making that hatred totally not irrational. Okay, maybe still a bit irrational. A study published in the Journal of Consumer … Read More
